I hated Planetary landing. I stayed away from mission requiring it. I watched many planet landing video's but yours by far is the best. Good graphics, great narration and the follow-up portion for leaving a planet is great also. It's a very necessary part of the story ! I no longer fear planet landings or take offs. Thank you
Same here. I thought I would take me a few missions to get the hang of it, but I just could not get it right. After watching this video I finally can. Thanks for this great tutorial, by the far the best on the topic. Now I can enjoy these missions and I do.
Ive done it before easily the first time trying and after that could not get it after wards.. I found your video and it came back to me how to properly land.. thanks, great explanation you got a like and a subscriber for that
I've learnt the game through TH-cam as well. The actual game is quite complex with no help from Frontier at all. Thanks God for TH-cam or I wouldn't of got out if a sidewinder
Me (an idiot pilot): time to land on a planet. Full speed ahead! Oh crap, planetary orbit and I’m super far from my target, better turn around. Oh? Dropped from orbital cruise? Glide aborted? And yet I’m still 500km away from the target. Lol! Thanks for the tutorial commander, this helped me avoid doing what I just described above.
Just started this game and could not for the life of me figure out how to get to a planetary base without always being on the complete opposite side. This explains a lot!
Thank you for explaining all this so well. I have had Elite Dangerous for some time now, but never really got into it. I was so frustrated by all this. Now I know how to land and take off of planets...that is awesome!
Thank GOD for this tutorial! Still kinda green to this whole shebang (bought the game on PS4 this past May and have just recently gotten a HOTAS so I can actually play-I don’t care what everyone else says; playing ED on a controller is damn near impossible and people who tell you otherwise are LYING), but this actually might help me expand my bounty hunting repertoire quite substantially. You’ve just earned yourself a sub, by the by!
Thanks for this. Just started playing, grabbing delivery missions to build up a bit of cash. I had no idea there are planetary bases until I got a mission that led me to one. Needless to say, I had no idea what I was doing and messed it up. This vid has got me back on track and plugging away towards buying my first ship!
Clearest and best tutorial I have found on planet base landing. Thank you so much. As a fairly new player I struggled with this many times, for delivery missions. I totalled my ship once which put me off doing further planet ones. I could never work out from orbit how to get the correct angle to start decending at. This has explained so clearly that I will try again. Many thanks.
Thanks for the video, as well as the additional technical information and tips on how to land at a planetary outpost. When I first tried landing on a planetary outpost, I spent way too much time gliding and wasted about 10 minutes covering the remaining distance to the outpost in regular flight. After watching this video, I became a lot more time-efficient when landing on planets. A few hours ago, someone on the EDC Discord asked for help landing on planets, and I referred them to this video, describing it to be "highly useful for learning how to land on planets efficiently". Hopefully, they'll benefit from watching this video as much as I did!
I know this is an old video, but wanted to say thanks for posting it! I'm new to the game and was having a heck of a time getting my base landings close to the base, even after reading a dozen different forums and things...no one explained it in basic, layman's terms (this is a real problem in general for this game...makes it hard for a newcomer to learn because nothing on the internet that comes up on google searches explains things in a way that makes sense for someone who doesn't already know the game). Then I watched this video. Turns out I was waaay overthinking things. Thank you for sharing this video, it saved my life...I now come out of glide and instantly go to being able to dock 100% of the time. I'm 5 days into playing and finally got most of the game play figured out, your videos were a big part of that!
Thank you for this! Can finally get my FSD engineered had no idea you gotta be within 5km for docking access to show up so I'd always chicken out and fly away cause I was scared I'd get shot at for landing without requesting docking 😂
Thank you for these videos. Always good to see a different take on the mechanics. Perhaps one day you can show how to "dock" an SRV at a planetary outpost. I've still not got the hang of that!
I know you made this a long time ago but I am new to Elite D and I have been struggling with landing. I have seen 4 or 5 other videos and this was by far the easiest to understand and I am confident I can get it now. Thanks!!
While watching your video and after seeing few others on the same topic, I realized how bad most people are at explaining things. Your video actually really explains it very well. Thank you
Thanks for the video man! I kept failing on approaching the planet I needed to make a delivery to, but after watching your video I accomplished it immediately.
Hey Alpha, great video like usual. Just wanted to point one thing out. I think it would be useful to show how to land on a specific coordinate. How to navigate to a specific latitude and longitude. That was my main problem when I was learning planetary approach in the beginning. Thank you for the video. Great material.
Thanks for the terrific landing tip. The tutorial on this was completely non existent. Did my first courier mission to Bordage Works. I had to learn planetary landing literally flying by the seat of my space suit pants. Good thing they added the altimeter because there was no way to gauge the distance to the planet surface LMAO.
Since there is no up or down in space something that helps me quite a bit is to think of the planetary base as being on the roof. So to help visualize that as you're leaving flip yourself upside down so the surface of the planet is above you and then point your nose down when you leave. Now instead of tilting yourself on your backside and going straight "up" you are diving "downward" into the depths of space.
Aye, I do the opposite and see them as on the deck... Thankfully someone brought the term to my attention as I didn't know it before making this video 😅
That was really helpful thanks, I've been playing this game for years and couldn't always get the planetary approach quite right, I didn't know about the sweet spot for flying around the planet that's gonna help me loads :)
When I take off from a planet I prefer to do this in the same motion.. I vertical ascend , turn away from the planet (close to 90 degrees) with my arse facing back at it, gear up and boost... Lot faster then just vertical ascending. Great video for the new pilots.
Kruell Right, I was having trouble with overheating until I started pointing straight up as early as possible. Then hit FSD as early as possible. When I already have another star system selected and it is in view, then I can hyperdrive directly to it without first going through supercruise, but sometimes I need to spend heatsink when the ascent angle is too low.
Very nice tutorial, and thank you for fully pointing out every relevant bit of the UI. I personally prefer to approach at around 30 degrees, but then I'm the sort of person who watches 2001 without reaching for the fast-forward button ;-)
Thank you. Finally, a planetary landing tutorial that actually demonstrates what to do and HOW to do it. Unfortunately, I can only hit that Like button once.
Although I can land perfect most of the time I still screw up occasionally. The gravity is the unknown factor that will decide whether you land safely or crash and burn. Thumbs up for this well explained video. I've picked up a few pointers.
Now, of course, there is the factor of gravity and location of desired landing sites but I have seen perfect approach angles and I was hoping to see that here. If you approach a planet at the perfect angle you can go from SC to OC to Glide and then be at your landing site without adjusting your attitude. It speeds up the landing process considerably since you spend less time in OC trying to get the best angle to your target. I still haven't been able to find the exact angle of approach but I have had limited success with an aproximate 50 degree down angle to the target on planet. Throttle control is key as if you don't watch your speed you'll end up too fast and hit the Drop zone at 65 km/s and get kicked from OC with no glide 30km from your target. Using the direct approach method I have had about a 50% success rate for a complete approach, 25% having to adjust attitude due to high speed and overshot my target, and 25% careening into the planet because I didn't watch my speed and/or attitude. One might say this is less efficient due to its failure percentage...and you'd probably be right but when you pull off a perfect approach you feel like a badass.
Hey Alpha, can you do a video on the different forms of supercruise travel? I have only managed to master the 6 seconds, and somewhat the helix of death (orbital stations I frequently use).
I was trying to land a cobra and i dropped out of the sky. Lets just say I found out how far a cobra can jump when falling when it has its shields up. The answer to that is pretty go damn far. Boy oh boy, i'm happy i outfitted it with the best shield generator. I lost about close to half my hull strength after one all mighty bounce. First time using a cobra by the way with gravity.
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I hated Planetary landing. I stayed away from mission requiring it. I watched many planet landing video's but yours by far is the best. Good graphics, great narration and the follow-up portion for leaving a planet is great also. It's a very necessary part of the story ! I no longer fear planet landings or take offs. Thank you
Same here. I thought I would take me a few missions to get the hang of it, but I just could not get it right. After watching this video I finally can. Thanks for this great tutorial, by the far the best on the topic. Now I can enjoy these missions and I do.
Happy to help out commanders :)
Ive done it before easily the first time trying and after that could not get it after wards.. I found your video and it came back to me how to properly land.. thanks, great explanation you got a like and a subscriber for that
I totally second it! The best video of planetary landing I've seen. Great work, man!
Learned the game through TH-cam tutorials, especially yours, so big thanks for this and the others.
I've learnt the game through TH-cam as well. The actual game is quite complex with no help from Frontier at all. Thanks God for TH-cam or I wouldn't of got out if a sidewinder
I'm brand new to the game and just got my first engineer invite. This will definitely help and I will be coming back to it.
And even after 4,5 years this is still an amazing tutorial !!
Me (an idiot pilot): time to land on a planet. Full speed ahead! Oh crap, planetary orbit and I’m super far from my target, better turn around. Oh? Dropped from orbital cruise? Glide aborted? And yet I’m still 500km away from the target.
Lol! Thanks for the tutorial commander, this helped me avoid doing what I just described above.
I did that earlier today.... I have a new ship now.....
Now that's how a tutorial should be. Succinct, informative and non scatological. Subscribed.
Oh shit... please don't look at my older ones then! ;)
But in all seriousness, thank you, glad you liked it.
Exept the part where he made a 5 mins max vid into an 11min vid
It's taken me years (being daunted, uninstalling, reinstalling) and your guide here actually allowed me to land on my first planet.
Thank you!
Just started this game and could not for the life of me figure out how to get to a planetary base without always being on the complete opposite side. This explains a lot!
I know this video is old but very informative. I made my first planetary landing flawlessly with your help. Thank you!
Perfectly concise and to the point. This helped me land at a planetary base in my first 2 days of playing.
Did my first planet landing tonight because of this video (and three other landings) and I survived them all!
I think you should do a tutorial for landing on Achenar 3 (6.73g), much entertainment to be had ;)
Thank you for explaining all this so well. I have had Elite Dangerous for some time now, but never really got into it. I was so frustrated by all this. Now I know how to land and take off of planets...that is awesome!
Thank GOD for this tutorial! Still kinda green to this whole shebang (bought the game on PS4 this past May and have just recently gotten a HOTAS so I can actually play-I don’t care what everyone else says; playing ED on a controller is damn near impossible and people who tell you otherwise are LYING), but this actually might help me expand my bounty hunting repertoire quite substantially.
You’ve just earned yourself a sub, by the by!
Dude Im a noob in this game just started and you just saved me hours and hours of frustration, Thanks
Thanks for this. Just started playing, grabbing delivery missions to build up a bit of cash. I had no idea there are planetary bases until I got a mission that led me to one. Needless to say, I had no idea what I was doing and messed it up. This vid has got me back on track and plugging away towards buying my first ship!
Happy to have helped in some small way.
Clearest and best tutorial I have found on planet base landing. Thank you so much. As a fairly new player I struggled with this many times, for delivery missions. I totalled my ship once which put me off doing further planet ones. I could never work out from orbit how to get the correct angle to start decending at. This has explained so clearly that I will try again. Many thanks.
I struggled a lot with landing and your tutorial is super helpful, thank you sir!
Happy to help out :)
Thanks for the video, as well as the additional technical information and tips on how to land at a planetary outpost. When I first tried landing on a planetary outpost, I spent way too much time gliding and wasted about 10 minutes covering the remaining distance to the outpost in regular flight. After watching this video, I became a lot more time-efficient when landing on planets.
A few hours ago, someone on the EDC Discord asked for help landing on planets, and I referred them to this video, describing it to be "highly useful for learning how to land on planets efficiently". Hopefully, they'll benefit from watching this video as much as I did!
Very valuable tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for! Thank you!
thanks so much now i dont have to wait 2H to land!
Thank you for this, brilliantly explained/demonstrated
Very well done and informative video.
not to long or rambly, but not too short omitting details.
Excellent job, thank you for sharing.
I know this is an old video, but wanted to say thanks for posting it! I'm new to the game and was having a heck of a time getting my base landings close to the base, even after reading a dozen different forums and things...no one explained it in basic, layman's terms (this is a real problem in general for this game...makes it hard for a newcomer to learn because nothing on the internet that comes up on google searches explains things in a way that makes sense for someone who doesn't already know the game).
Then I watched this video. Turns out I was waaay overthinking things. Thank you for sharing this video, it saved my life...I now come out of glide and instantly go to being able to dock 100% of the time. I'm 5 days into playing and finally got most of the game play figured out, your videos were a big part of that!
Happy to help out Commander, welcome to the black :)
Thank you for this! Can finally get my FSD engineered had no idea you gotta be within 5km for docking access to show up so I'd always chicken out and fly away cause I was scared I'd get shot at for landing without requesting docking 😂
Finally learned to land at a base thanks to an easy to follow tutorial, Thanks
Thank you for these videos. Always good to see a different take on the mechanics. Perhaps one day you can show how to "dock" an SRV at a planetary outpost. I've still not got the hang of that!
I know you made this a long time ago but I am new to Elite D and I have been struggling with landing. I have seen 4 or 5 other videos and this was by far the easiest to understand and I am confident I can get it now. Thanks!!
Thanks fella, you have most definitely saved me hours of play, working this out, thanks for the upload
The best video on how to land I have seen. Thank you so much!
While watching your video and after seeing few others on the same topic, I realized how bad most people are at explaining things. Your video actually really explains it very well. Thank you
Short sweet and to the point, very nice tut!
Many thanks for that i am very much a rookie player and have been avoiding planetary stations . looking forward to trying it out again with your tips.
Thanks for the video man! I kept failing on approaching the planet I needed to make a delivery to, but after watching your video I accomplished it immediately.
Happy to help out CMDR :)
Mate, you are the best. Thank you for not letting me crash
I wish I would look it up before I had to abandon a planetary base mission 🤦🏻♂️
Great video!
Thanks for this - just started playing and needed the info for my first planetary cargo delivery. :)
Thanks a lot - watched several and still struggled. Your tips were perfect!
Hey Alpha, great video like usual. Just wanted to point one thing out. I think it would be useful to show how to land on a specific coordinate. How to navigate to a specific latitude and longitude. That was my main problem when I was learning planetary approach in the beginning. Thank you for the video. Great material.
Agreement. Trying to get to specific points for things like Meta Alloys is a right pain in the tits and I'm sure I'm doing it wrong.
Thanks for the terrific landing tip. The tutorial on this was completely non existent. Did my first courier mission to Bordage Works. I had to learn planetary landing literally flying by the seat of my space suit pants. Good thing they added the altimeter because there was no way to gauge the distance to the planet surface LMAO.
This was a big help in understanding how to land on a planet
Every second of this video was super useful, thank you very much!
Brilliant video, thank you so much for doing what Frontier does not.
Since there is no up or down in space something that helps me quite a bit is to think of the planetary base as being on the roof. So to help visualize that as you're leaving flip yourself upside down so the surface of the planet is above you and then point your nose down when you leave. Now instead of tilting yourself on your backside and going straight "up" you are diving "downward" into the depths of space.
Aye, I do the opposite and see them as on the deck... Thankfully someone brought the term to my attention as I didn't know it before making this video 😅
@@ChaosWulff The enemy gate is down eh? :D
I tend to use a docking computer, but this is certainly a VERY useful video. Especially since the computer does NOT cover planetary approach. TY!
That was really helpful thanks, I've been playing this game for years and couldn't always get the planetary approach quite right, I didn't know about the sweet spot for flying around the planet that's gonna help me loads :)
When I take off from a planet I prefer to do this in the same motion.. I vertical ascend , turn away from the planet (close to 90 degrees) with my arse facing back at it, gear up and boost... Lot faster then just vertical ascending. Great video for the new pilots.
Kruell Right, I was having trouble with overheating until I started pointing straight up as early as possible. Then hit FSD as early as possible. When I already have another star system selected and it is in view, then I can hyperdrive directly to it without first going through supercruise, but sometimes I need to spend heatsink when the ascent angle is too low.
Very nice tutorial, and thank you for fully pointing out every relevant bit of the UI. I personally prefer to approach at around 30 degrees, but then I'm the sort of person who watches 2001 without reaching for the fast-forward button ;-)
This is the one tutorial I needed to know how to land on planets. All the other ones I've seen haven't been in depth like this one so thank you :)
Yeah. In nms you hit a button and you're done, here....
Perfect tutorial, aced it first time because of it.
Thank you. The best Planetary Base Landing Tutorial I've found.
the green arrows are a HUGE help!
Thank you so much for explaining this in such an easy way to understand! Time for me to master landings :)
I was not able to land or orbit without you!!! still relevant!!!!
Thank you. Finally, a planetary landing tutorial that actually demonstrates what to do and HOW to do it. Unfortunately, I can only hit that Like button once.
Although I can land perfect most of the time I still screw up occasionally. The gravity is the unknown factor that will decide whether you land safely or crash and burn. Thumbs up for this well explained video. I've picked up a few pointers.
Now, of course, there is the factor of gravity and location of desired landing sites but I have seen perfect approach angles and I was hoping to see that here. If you approach a planet at the perfect angle you can go from SC to OC to Glide and then be at your landing site without adjusting your attitude. It speeds up the landing process considerably since you spend less time in OC trying to get the best angle to your target. I still haven't been able to find the exact angle of approach but I have had limited success with an aproximate 50 degree down angle to the target on planet. Throttle control is key as if you don't watch your speed you'll end up too fast and hit the Drop zone at 65 km/s and get kicked from OC with no glide 30km from your target. Using the direct approach method I have had about a 50% success rate for a complete approach, 25% having to adjust attitude due to high speed and overshot my target, and 25% careening into the planet because I didn't watch my speed and/or attitude. One might say this is less efficient due to its failure percentage...and you'd probably be right but when you pull off a perfect approach you feel like a badass.
Thanks for the video. I was able to land 1st time. Was only 25Km away when I broke into atmosphere.
Awesome video. A lot of help for me. I did not understand this procedure b4 this vid! Thx and keep up the good work!
You taught me so much, master-bird!
Brilliant tutorial! I've been having nightmare with planetary landings.
I came from the future to say how helpful this video will be
Great video! Thank you for making it. I will no longer shy away from planetary missions. Fly dangerous! o7
Incredibly informative video! Great stuff!
Excellent video, will try this tomorrow!
I found it very useful, thank you commander
This was REALLY helpful. Thank you so much. Was struggling with this yesterday on PS4.
For the algorithm!
Thank you for the info. It helped a lot.
I'm happy it was of use.
Fantastic! Love the ED vids...very informative and explained thoroughly. Keep up the good work...Sub'd.
Welcome to the pack, happy you're enjoying the content :)
Thank you CW. This explained it admirably briefly and in simple terms that a spacedolt (Me IOW) can take on board. ;o)
Came back a few weeks ago to ED (on PC this time). Needed a landing refresher. =) o7
I always wondered what the fastest way to approach would be. don't like getting close to that red zone though, that's kind of scary
A very well explained and very helpful tutorial video. Thank you! 😊
Amazing video. Exactly the detailed explanation I was looking for. Many, many thanks.
Excellent video. Thank you.
Thank you for the help. This helped a lot.
Happy to help out CMDR.
Excellent. Very well done.
Pure gold, cheers.
You sure make it look easy - thanks for making this vid!
Thank you, that really helps. Subscribed as I already watched a few other of your videos. good content!
Nice guide. Thanks.
I found this tutorial very useful 👍 👌 😀
thanks, great explanation
Amazing tutorial 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
OH GOD!! Thank you for this, have yourself a subscriber :)
Thank you so very much!!
Hey Alpha, can you do a video on the different forms of supercruise travel? I have only managed to master the 6 seconds, and somewhat the helix of death (orbital stations I frequently use).
I was trying to land a cobra and i dropped out of the sky. Lets just say I found out how far a cobra can jump when falling when it has its shields up. The answer to that is pretty go damn far. Boy oh boy, i'm happy i outfitted it with the best shield generator. I lost about close to half my hull strength after one all mighty bounce. First time using a cobra by the way with gravity.
This video was incredibly helpful
This video is amazing, thank you! Subbed!
Really nice video cheers, I enjoyed it any chance a video on how to search for things with the buggy sensor, control, scanning etc please
Excellent, very clear! thanks!
thank you for the info, like louis Marrero, I am scared of planet landing and take off's.
Your great thanks for the help my friend
My pleasure :)
needed to see this :)
Thanks for the TUT!
Very helpful. Thank you.
Thank you
Still simpler than KSP though :P Nice tutorial
Good tutorial, thanks!